Fleas!

[Sparks_]

Not serious thread but.........

For the first time since we have had our cat she has fleas! we have had her for almost a year now.

Been to the vet to get a flea treatment...almost £10 and thats with a 20% discount!

Now comes the fun bit, was messaged by my daughter when I got back...they are fumigating her workplace for fleas!!!!!! Should I push my luck and ask them to pay for my cats flea treatment? Or will they just say its a coincidence?

Would you ask them?

[unclebulgaria67]

They might think your daughter carried the fleas to work and include her in the fumigation.

 

The cat flea treatment e. Frontline, does work quite well. In my garden there are a number of regular hedgehog visitors and they carry fleas. I can remember years ago, our old dog bothering a hedgehog and coming back covered in fleas.

[honeybee13]

You don't have to go to the vet for spot-on flea treatments. I'm pretty sure I've seen them in Boots and you can buy them online as well.

 

HB

[havinastella]

Just a note, Frontline removed their active ingredient and no longer works well.

 

Advantage, which you could only get on presciption has now become over the counter and works extremely well.

[estellyn]

Just a note, Frontline removed their active ingredient and no longer works well.

 

Advantage, which you could only get on presciption has now become over the counter and works extremely well.

 

You can get advantage from amazon. It's what we use on our cats after frontline stopped working.

[citizenB]

You don't have to go to the vet for spot-on flea treatments. I'm pretty sure I've seen them in Boots and you can buy them online as well.

 

HB

 

You can also purchase Flea treatments (Frontline) from Pets at Home.

 

Our Vet now uses PrinoVox

[hightail]

I wasn't aware Frontline no longer contains the active ingredient - Fipronil. There are those who claim fleas have become resistant to Fipronil. They may be but in quite a lot of stories of resistance I hear owners switch to an alternative which is exactly the same dose of the same ingredient under a different brand name and claim success - go figure. What I'm fairly sure happens is that having treated an animal with the best known brand and failed to eradicate the fleas they then change brands AND treat the house. If your animal has fleas then your home is full of flea eggs. A combination of a spray and your vacuum cleaner is equally important as treating the pet. There's one called Skoosh which is highly effective as it's silicone based and treats across the whole life cycle of the flea. It isn't cheap but it works.

[estellyn]

We've always used indorex on the house and furnishings. When the fleas came back on the cat, it was on the cat alone. Switched to advantage, no more fleas.

[havinastella]

We've always used indorex on the house and furnishings. When the fleas came back on the cat, it was on the cat alone. Switched to advantage, no more fleas.

 

Snap

[hightail]

Indorex is also highly effective but you do have to be careful where you use it as it's a cocktail of toxic chemicals. The reason I'm so fond of Skoosh is because it's so safe to use even in babies and childrens' rooms/furnishings and won't poison cats.